Facebook deletes posts

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5 April, 2018, 12:00 am

SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a “troll factory” indicted by US prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 US election campaign.

Facebook said many of the deleted articles and pages came from Russia-based Federal News Agency, known as FAN, and concluded the agency intertwined with the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency.